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GUTS feeling

● YOU CAN STICK YOUR LITTLE biscuits, Proust: music is how I travel in time. Family Sunday lunch, mid-1980s? That’s a double bill of Love’s Forever Changes and Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark (thanks, Dad).

Swapping my Co-Op tabard for my Miss Selfridge finest to go clubbing in 1998? “Music Sounds Better” by Stardust. First year of university? Kaleidoscope by Kelis throws me straight back to my dismal Manchester halls.

So here’s a weird thing. I put on the new Olivia Rodrigo album, , and suddenly it was 1995 again.

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